ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We wish to extend our gratitude to Uri Dromi, the Director of the Mishkenot Shananim Center in Jerusalem, who came up with the idea of gathering a group of international media scholars and supplied the facilities and resources needed to host the seminar. We also want to thank Ofira Ratsabi and Candice Nahum who assisted in the logistics, and to Becky Feinberg who was in charge of documenting our discussions. Last but not least, we wish to thank the participants, most of whom have contributed to this special issue: Elihu Katz (University of Pennsylvania and Hebrew University), Michael X. Delli Carpini (University of Pennsylvania), Shani Orgad (London School of Economics), Bruce A. Williams (University of Virginia), Sandrine Boudana (New York University), Menahem Blondheim (Hebrew University), Gadi Wolfsfeld (Hebrew University), Tamir Sheafer (Hebrew University), Paul Frosh (Hebrew University), Zvi Reich (Ben-Gurion University), and Hillel Nossek (College of Management, Tel Aviv).